Saturation TV coverage of the slow approach of Hurricane Sandy has led to such a shortage of reporters for covering closing election slurs that the two presidential campaigns have agreed to delay Election Day by one week...

Former U.S. general and secretary of state Colin Powell – one of the most trusted and respected living Americans – returned Thursday to the United Nations to make a forceful and convincing endorsement of the re-election of President Barack Obama...

Jesse Jackson Jr., who was recently diagnosed with a rare bi-polling disorder, has checked back into Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. With the Presidential Election heading into the home stretch, his family said the temptation for Junior to obsess over multiple polls was just too great...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel humbly congratulated himself Wednesday for submitting a balanced budget. He also gave city taxpayers an early Halloween gift by terrifying them with the threat of taxes doubling to cover $1.2 billion in new pension costs...

Given that the NFL perfectly timed the Chicago Bears’ bye week to fall when not a single other local professional sports team is active, Bears fans are in serious need of a pigskin substitute. Here are 10 ways they could itch that football Jones (not named Thomas)...

With today’s 35th running of the Chicago Marathon, the race is well-established as a local tradition. In fact in my household, we celebrate it each year as that great crisp autumn day when Chicago Marathon organizers announce an absurdly high spectator figure...